Posts Tagged ‘art’

Inspired, in part, by her time as a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow at Cobb Hill Ecovillage in Vermont, Any Sulistyowati developed a vision for her own sustainability training center and community in the forests above Bandung, Indonesia. She created this quilt of her vision during one of her Fellows workshops:
Any’s Vision
Using sustainable, mostly second-hand materials,

“I am from Manzanillo and I would like to be a bird because they constantly travel and know the ecosystem.”
Inspired by our open-sourced Learning from Nature: A Course in Biomimicry curriculum, Viviana Mourra and Dolany Acuña of Ecoprogreso in Colombia initiated a youth-focused project on connecting local people more closely with nature.
Viviana, Director of Ecoprogreso writes:
Dominic, this biomimicry

Dominic Stucker and Johanna Bozuwa wrote an article highlighting Jay Mead‘s pioneering work in the “art of sustainability” for the Society for Organizational Learning‘s (SoL’s) Reflections Journal. The abstract for the article “The Art of Sustainability: Creative Expression as a Tool for Social Change” summarizes:
Much of the work to date on sustainability has relied on

Art pieces by Jay Mead, Michaelyn Bachhuber, Nirmala Nair, and Dominic Stucker
By Dominic Stucker, Program Manager at Sustainability Leaders Network.
Systems thinking and creativity are essential for bringing about the transition to sustainability. Systems thinking helps us assemble diverse stakeholders to better understand the integrated economic, social, and environmental systems we seek to change. Creativity and art help

In looking at what Ken Robinson says about creativity and how schools are currently killing this natural part of our being, it’s clear that he, along with other visionaries, believe that this industrial model of education no longer serves us. He states that “creativity is as important as literacy,” and that we should be cultivating